Lewis Hamilton was again behind a Ferrari F1 automotive on Tuesday as his preparation for the 2025 season continued in Barcelona.
This time, Hamilton received the chance to drive Ferrari’s 2024 challenger – the SF-24.
The SF-24 narrowly missed out on the F1 constructors’ championship to McLaren, with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz profitable 5 races in 2024.
On paper, the 2024 automotive was a major improve on its predecessor – the SF-23, which Hamilton drove final week.
The seven-time world champion crashed the 2023 automotive throughout his second day of operating final week on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Nonetheless, Ferrari are concerned in a Pirelli check, which is concentrated on subsequent 12 months’s tyres, and so they had been compelled to make an uncommon arrange change because of this.
As per Autoracer, to duplicate 2026’s guidelines, Hamilton’s Ferrari was arrange with extraordinarily low ranges of downforce.
That is unusual for Barcelona, given historically groups would choose to run much more downforce through the precise season due to the character of the corners.
With the 2026 guidelines anticipated to lead to a 20 per cent loss in downforce, the arrange tweak ought to give Pirelli higher information as they proceed with their tyre improvement.
Particular particulars of what occurred within the check have but to be revealed by Pirelli, however plainly for Hamilton, it’s gone quite a bit smoother than final week.
Leclerc makes up for misplaced floor
On the opposite facet of the Ferrari storage, Leclerc was additionally in motion, driving the SF-23.
This utilised a few of his allotted TPC (testing earlier vehicles) mileage.
Leclerc missed out on essential operating final week following Hamilton’s shunt.
Ferrari weren’t the one workforce testing in Barcelona, with McLaren additionally helping Pirelli with their 2026 tyres.
Sky Sports activities Italy additionally reported that Alpine had been current on the Spanish circuit.
